Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

The person who emerged from behind the embankment was none other than Xiao Ma, who had gone missing the night before last.

Xiao Ma, still wearing his thin clothes, waved tremblingly at Jiang Sen and the others, pleading, "Help me..."

Jiang Sen and Dashanzi quickly ran over, pulled the man over, patted the snow off him, and Dashanzi took off his military overcoat and wrapped it around him.

"Let's go back first!"

Jiang Sen picked up his basket and shovel and followed the two men back.

He looked at the pony ahead, and the further he walked, the more his brows furrowed.

It would be quite unbelievable if someone could spend two or three days in the wilderness in a blizzard wearing only a single layer of trousers and not suffer from frostbite or any other injury.

However, in his first priority, Dashanzi only wanted to get the person back as soon as possible and didn't pay attention to the details at all.

"Where did you go? The squad leader was so worried about you all night, and he went to the brigade headquarters to report first thing this morning. You really made everyone anxious!"

Xiao Ma said, shivering, "That night I was working the night shift when my foot slipped and I slid down. When I got down there, I quickly ran back, but as I walked, the snow got heavier and the wind got stronger, so I hid in a snowdrift. I waited for the snow to pass before I came out again. I never expected to end up here."

"I'm not going to talk to you now. You're lucky you haven't frozen to death. Let's go back first!"

Jiang Sen didn't believe a single word Xiao Ma said.

Even if a snowdrift can protect you from the wind, it's not resistant to the cold!

He had no food and no clothes, how did he manage to survive?

Even though everything seemed plausible, Jiang Sen still suspected that Xiao Ma was lying.

He must have spent the last two or three days in a warm place with plenty of food, otherwise he wouldn't be so weak now.

I'm shivering all over; that's because I'm freezing, and I'm freezing so others can see it.

Why do you want to do this?

And when he first arrived, Lu Xiu misled Shao Jiajia into picking the Heartbreak Grass to poison everyone. He still hasn't figured that out, and now there's this Xiao Ma thing.

Jiang Sen felt that he had overlooked a lot of things in his past life.

I followed silently behind them back onto the road.

The appearance of the little horse caused a sensation, and everyone ran back, surrounding the little horse and asking it all sorts of questions.

With a coat of pheasants hanging from his clothes, Da Liu said, "Da Shanzi and Xiao Jiang, come with me and the others back to warm up. The rest of you, don't go too far. We'll head back soon! Let's go!"

The others watched the group walk away before they started talking amongst themselves and quickened their pace in searching for wild vegetables and mushrooms.

Back to camp.

Jiang Sen put down his things and lit the stove.

Xiao Ma sat by the fire, still wearing Da Shanzi's military overcoat.

Dashanzi went back, put on his old overcoat, and came out again.

Da Liu put the pheasant down, placed the baby pheasants from the bamboo basket into the wooden house corridor, and took out two wild vegetable buns from the morning and handed them to Jiang Sen.

Jiang Sen threaded a wooden stick through his fingers and placed the wild vegetable buns on the fire to roast.

The water in the pot boiled, and then half a teacup was poured and handed to Xiao Ma.

Da Liu brushed the snow off the stove, sat down, and asked, "What exactly happened?"

Xiao Ma repeated what he had said to Da Shanzi.

After listening, Da Liu nodded. "You're lucky. Anyone else would have frozen solid by now. The squad leader went down the mountain to the team headquarters. If all goes well, he should be back before dark today."

Little Ma ate the roasted wild vegetable buns and sipped hot water.

Seeing that he was alright, Da Liu ate a quick bite and went back to find more food with the others.

Dashanzi sighed, "This heavy snow came way too early! I wonder when it will stop."

Jiang Sen can no longer view this matter based on his past life's experience.

In my previous life, the heavy snow came early and directly blocked the mountain pass for ten days.

The snowfall has been delayed by several days, and it looks like it's getting lighter and lighter, almost stopping.

Sure enough, the snow stopped when Da Liu returned with the others around 3 p.m.

Everyone put down their things and started shoveling snow, leaving a few people behind to help Jiang Sen sort the wild vegetables and mushrooms.

Little Horse went back to the tent to sleep.

Dashanzi lit the fire pit inside the tent, and the temperature inside rose.

At 7 p.m., when it was time for dinner, Sui Zhongliang returned, bringing several people with him.

Feng Chao?

He was actually transferred here.

It seems that the plot of the transformation in the previous life is showing signs of returning to its original trajectory.

"Jiang Sen!" Feng Chao was delighted to see Jiang Sen. "You didn't expect that, did you? They said you were short-staffed, so the farm headquarters sent all of us over to help."

That sounds very nice.

But Sister Ma said that what the higher-ups called "adjustment" was actually just transferring people who had made mistakes or were reported for doing bad things after going to the brigade.

After all, there's no way to slack off here in the forest farm.

Otherwise, if someone reports a problem again and they are transferred to a livestock farm or to clean a cowshed, things will be even worse.

"Jiang Sen, this place is wonderful!" Feng Chao seemed oblivious to Jiang Sen's coldness, looking around the area. "Amidst the mountains and in nature, even one's will can be strengthened!"

Wang Haiyang was carrying firewood when he heard this and couldn't help but sneer.

Feeling somewhat embarrassed, Feng Chao asked, "Did I say something wrong?"

Wang Haiyang ignored him completely, put the firewood next to Jiang Sen, and turned to leave.

Feng Chao punched a cotton ball and said to Jiang Sen, "Why is this guy like this? What's with the arrogance? We're all here, everyone's the same, why are you giving me the cold shoulder?"

Wang Haiyang glanced back at him, chuckled again, ignored him, and walked away.

"Huh? You mean..."

Jiang Sen also got up and went to the cabin.

With a few more people, we need to cook more for dinner.

There wasn't much food left; we were relying entirely on a few pheasants.

When I went to the team headquarters before, Da Liu borrowed some of the team's rations and brought them up with him.

Jiang Sen then went to the farm headquarters with Luo Yongcai and changed some more people.

After returning, they returned all the rations they had lent out, but there wasn't much left.

I thought we could hold on for a few more days, but unexpectedly, a few more mouths to feed have been added.

Feng Chao and his men's food rations won't arrive until next month.

These days, we can only borrow food from other people's rations.

While waiting for the pheasant stew with mushrooms and the cornbread to be ready, Jiang Sen took out his notebook and started keeping accounts by the firelight, adding the names of Feng Chao and the others.

Feng Chao leaned closer, "Hey, you wrote an extra stroke in this character... Hey, it's the 'yang' in 'flying,' not the 'yang' in 'sunshine'... Hey..."

"Don't you have anything better to do?" Jiang Sen looked up at him and immediately called out to Da Liu, "Squad leader, Feng Chao said he's a wood-chopping prodigy!"

Da Liu was delighted to hear this. "Really? It's a good opportunity to chop some more firewood with them. Otherwise, when we run out of firewood, no one will want to come out and work in this freezing cold. Let's go help them!"

Feng Chao looked at Jiang Sen and asked, "When did I say that?"

Jiang Sen laughed and said, "Didn't you just say that there was too little firewood here and too much there? The squad leader is calling you, hurry up and go!"

Feng Chao walked away with a look of resentment and helplessness.

He cursed himself inwardly for not learning his lesson!

Knowing full well that Jiang Sen was not someone to be trifled with, he still went and approached him anyway.

Jiang Sen watched his retreating figure, a smirk playing on his lips. Serves him right!

Who gave you permission to get close to them?

I can’t kill you!

Three other people came, all of them quite honest, and they volunteered to help reinforce the tent, chop firewood, and shovel snow.

Sui Zhongliang came out of the tent, looked at Xiao Ma, and his brows remained furrowed.

He walked forward and said to Liu, who was repairing tools, "This won't do. He looks like he has a fever. Do you have any medicine?"

Da Liu said, "We only have a little bit of external wound medicine left."

Sui Zhongliang looked at the sky. "If all else fails, we'll take him down the mountain tomorrow and report to headquarters that we've found him!"